Welcome
An “Arabian-Nightish” gift to Yale is what Clarence Day, the author of Life With Father, called the Elizabethan Club. The Club was the brainchild of his Yale classmate, Alexander Smith Cochran, Class of 1896, who in 1911 donated a house, a $100,000 endowment, and his important collection of early English literature to found it. Its modest purpose was to provide a forum for undergraduate discussions on literature, art, or indeed any subject, and to offer a congenial environment for social and intellectual interaction between junior and senior members of the University.
“The object of this club shall be the promotion among its members and in the community of a larger appreciation of literature and the arts and of social intercourse founded upon such appreciation.” The Elizabethan Club Constitution